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I am based currently at the Institute of Cultural Research at University of Tartu, Estonia.
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May 2022 - present
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January 2017 - present
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This paper analyses alcohol consumption amongst the indigenous communities of reindeer herders in the Russian North. It introduces the metaphor of the social catalyst to interpret a broad range of effects and motivations linked with drinking practices and discourses associated with alcohol. An anthropological fieldwork methodology allows entry into...
Hybridity is often discussed in connection with the postcolonial condition. The cultural revival of the Khanty bear ceremony in Western Siberia could be a perfect example. It is on one hand a key representation of local Indigenous ontology and on the other has become a token in cultural heritage preservation by state actors and a cultural commodity...
Truly transdisciplinary approaches are needed to tackle the complex problems that the Arctic is facing at the moment. Collaboration between Indigenous rights holders and researchers through co-creative research approaches can result in high-quality research outcomes, but crucially also address colonial legacies and power imbalances, enhance mutual...
The idea for this article grew out of the joint attempt of a linguist, an anthropologist, a filmmaker, and Indigenous storytellers to find ways to make Indigenous stories of deserted places and seemingly uninhabited places understandable. We present here stories in different languages, namely Surgut Khanty and English, as told by Khanty and Forest...
The following paper sheds new light on the Second World War oral history of the Nenets—indigenous people living in the northwestern part of the Russian Arctic. The participation of Nenets reindeer herders is commemorated and celebrated as part of the antifascist heroism of the Soviet people in the public historical discourse. Parts of the personal...
This article considers two important German Siberianists, Hans Findeisen (1903–1968) and Wolfgang Steinitz (1905–1967), with disparate academic biographies that intersected several times. These scholars both experienced challenges in pursuing fieldwork in the Soviet Union, including political circumstances that endangered their colleagues and thems...
Domestic reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) play a vital role in the culture and livelihoods of indigenous people across northern Eurasia. These animals are well adapted to harsh environmental conditions, such as extreme cold, limited feed availability and long migration distances. Therefore, understanding the genomics of reindeer is crucial for improvin...
Semi-domestic reindeer play a vital role in the culture and livelihoods of indigenous people across the northern Eurasia. These animals are well adapted to harsh environmental conditions, such as extreme cold, limited feed availability and long migration distances. Therefore, understanding the genomics of reindeer is crucial for improving their man...
The chapter provides an overview of contemporary religious and secular festivals today in Siberia, which have originated in diverse Indigenous religious practices, institutionalized religion, and the secularized rituals of Soviet times. Many public festivals like the Sakha “Yhyakh” or the widespread “Day of the Reindeer Herder” serve as displays of...
This perspective presents a statement of the 10th International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences Indigenous Knowledge and knowledge co-production panel and discussion group, 20 July 2021. The statement is designed to serve as a characterization of the state-of-the-art and guidance for further advancement of Indigenous Knowledge and knowledge co-p...
Maps can beautifully and, at times, wistfully tell us the story of us. However cartography, like history, often overwhelmingly documents the worlds, stories, and accomplishments of men. In these stories, the contributions of women, especially Indigenous women, rarely make it onto the map. This holds true in the Arctic as well. In this commentary, w...
С одной стороны, о соотношении безопасности и рисков сказано уже так много
, что вроде бы сложно добавить что-то новое, с другой стороны, очевидно, что эта тема остается по-прежнему актуальной: ее различные аспекты обсуждают между собой коллеги, она регулярно поднимается студентами на Полевом семинаре факультета антропологии ЕУСПб, в котором мы оба...
В фокусе книги — люди 1980–1995 годов рождения, на момент исследования жившие на Севере: коренное и некоренное население, мужчины и женщины, жители северных поселков и промышленных городов. Центральный вопрос книги: что мотивирует современных жителей Севера оставаться на месте или уезжать в ситуации растущей экономической роли Севера? Почему люди,...
Hans Findeisen (1903−1968) war ein in Berlin geborener und lange dort ansässiger Ethnologe, dessen Biographie bisher nur unvollständig und teilweise widersprüchlich dokumentiert ist. Es sind gerade die dunklen Momente seiner Karriere, die uns einige zentrale Probleme des ethnographischen Arbeitens und der akademischen Gepflogenheiten im Deutschland...
Hans Findeisen (1903-1968) war ein in Berlin geborener und lange dort ansässiger Ethnologe, dessen Biographie bisher nur unvollständig und teilweise widersprüchlich dokumentiert ist. Es sind gerade die dunklen Momente seiner Karriere, die uns einige zentrale Probleme des ethnographischen Arbeitens und der akademischen Gepflogenheiten im Deutschland...
The essay provides a review of a small but remarkable book on the work of two important Native American and Siberian poets, Meditations after the Bear Feast by Navarre Scott Momaday and Yuri Vella, published in 2016 by Shanti Arts in Brunswick, Maine. Their poetic dialogue revolves around the well-known role of the bear as a sociocultural keystone...
The metaphor of translation describing the
process of anthropological knowledge production
between fieldwork and the academic text can be
understood in two quite different ways. In what
follows, I will try to describe these two ways of
reading the act of translation and juxtapose
them. The first way is what I would call translation as interpr...
This article discusses ethical implications when sharing results in oral history research. We look at a case study of an Arctic community in Russian Lapland dealing with boarding school experiences. Bringing back research results about this topic provoked diverse reactions. We examine how the social life of stories and the social life of research a...
In order to provide an overview of the present day situation of sacred places of indigenous people leading a seminomadic or sedentary lifestyle in multi-ethnic regions in the subarctic zone we present here ethnographic case studies from two geographical regions and three ethnic groups. We concentrate on an anthropological analysis of practices arou...
Das Kapitel widmet sich historischen Selbstzeugnissen von indigenen Bewohnerinnen und Bewohnern der Arktis von Fennoskandia bis zum Lenadelta, die im Oral History Projekt ORHELIA zwischen 2011 und 2015 gesammelt, analysiert, archiviert und veröffentlicht wurden. Diese Art von historischer Wissenschaft wird von anthropologischer Feldforschung und pa...
The article offers an ethnographic account of contemporary housing practices among nomadic reindeer herders in the Russian North. We draw on the results of an extensive fieldwork in several locations to describe how the making of mobile homes incorporates traditional and advanced technologies, and implicitly reflects the ongoing changes in the livi...
В статье представлены первые результаты и планы работы в рамках совместного научно-исследовательского проекта антропологов Арктического Центра университета Лапландии и Ассоциации ненецкого народа «Ясавэй» по собиранию, архивации и популяризации устной истории ненцев. На данном этапе полевых работ, которые автор ведет на Канинском полуострове, можно...
Drinking and Driving Is So Much Fun is an unusual title for an anthropological workshop. It has just the right provocation to induce serious reflections on something that anthropologists usually reserve for the famous 'corridor talk' during conferences, when they discuss ambivalent fieldwork experiences difficult to integrate into the success stori...
In this paper I present the results of the first stage of a comparative
project of oral history in the North. The project is funded by
the Research Council for Society and Culture at the Academy of Finland
and includes the research of several anthropologists based at the
Arctic Centre of the University in Rovaniemi in collaboration with
native comm...
ABSTRAcT The following article* explores the meaning of roads and the practices of movement for a small group of forest inhabitants in the western Siberian lowlands on the middle Ob. The indigenous people known as the Khanty live as reindeer herders, fisher-men and hunters in the midst of oilfields in the Surgut Rayon. The article examines their em...
Reindeer herding is unthinkable without nomadism or transhumance (seasonal movement of livestock between different pastures). Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) were domesticated late in comparison with other animals, and the characteristics and behavior of the domesticated herds closely resemble those of reindeer in the wild. Extreme weather variations...
